workshop-firebase

Example of connectivity between FIREBASE database and InterSystems IRIS.

You can find more in-depth information in https://learning.intersystems.com.

What do you need to install?

• Git

• Docker (if you are using Windows, make sure you set your Docker installation to use “Linux containers”).

• Docker Compose

• Visual Studio Code + InterSystems ObjectScript VSCode Extension

Setup

Build the image that we will use during the workshop:

$ git clone https://github.com/intersystems-ib/workshop-firebase
$ cd workshop-firebase
$ docker-compose build

Introduction

Firebase is a Google platform for the development of web applications, for this example we are going to create an adapter to connecto with Cloud Firestore, a NoSQL database available in Firebase.

How to run the container?

Very easy! Just run the following command to start the IRIS instance:

$ docker-compose up -d

What are you going to find in this project?

• An IRIS Community installed and accesible from the Management Portal (user: superuser / password: sys).

• A production with a Business Service configured, this BS has a custom adapter configured to connect with a Cloud Firestore database using Embedded Python. There are two parameters to be configured:

  • KeyPath: with the path to the json file wich contains the key to access to your database
  • DocName: the name of the collection that you want to retrieve.

• A requirements.txt with the Python library necessary to connect with Firebase project.

Attention!

• To run this project you need a Firebase account and a project created with a Cloud Firestore database created to get a json file with the key to connect.
• Check this article from the developer community